Electricity Demand Per Person by Country 2024

About This Dataset

Electricity demand per person in 2024, in megawatt-hours, as measured by Ember. One MWh is 1,000 kilowatt-hours. Covers countries that generated at least 10 TWh of electricity in the year, so very small island grids do not dominate the ranking.

✨ AI Insight

Iceland uses the most electricity per person in the world at 48.4 MWh a year, ahead of Norway at 24.9 and Bahrain at 23.9. The ranking is a mix of cold northern countries, Gulf states with year-round air conditioning, and economies built around heavy industry or aluminium smelting. The United States at 12.8 MWh is the largest economy in the ranking, yet uses roughly a quarter as much per person as Iceland, whose figure is driven by aluminium smelting on a population of under 400,000.

Source: Ember - Yearly Electricity Data

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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Iceland leads with 48 in 2024.

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Average value in 2024: 18 · median: 16.

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Gap in 2024: Iceland is 4.6× larger than Australia.